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ReviewEcancermedicalscience2019

Challenges and shifting paradigms in clinical trials in oncology: the case for immunological and targeted therapies.

Diana Carolina Sotelo-Rodríguez, Alejandro Ruíz-Patiño, Luisa Ricaurte, Oscar Arrieta, Zyanya Lucia Zatarain-Barrón, Andrés F Cardona

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Review in Ecancermedicalscience, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
3citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Diana Carolina Sotelo-RodríguezFoundation for Clinical and Applied Cancer Research-FICMAC, Bogotá 100110, Colombia.
Alejandro Ruíz-PatiñoFoundation for Clinical and Applied Cancer Research-FICMAC, Bogotá 100110, Colombia.
Luisa RicaurteFoundation for Clinical and Applied Cancer Research-FICMAC, Bogotá 100110, Colombia.
Oscar ArrietaThoracic Oncology Unit and Laboratory of Personalized Medicine, Instituto Nacional de Cancerología (INCan), México City 14080, Mexico.
Zyanya Lucia Zatarain-BarrónThoracic Oncology Unit and Laboratory of Personalized Medicine, Instituto Nacional de Cancerología (INCan), México City 14080, Mexico.
Andrés F CardonaFoundation for Clinical and Applied Cancer Research-FICMAC, Bogotá 100110, Colombia.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The advent of immunotherapy has undoubtedly changed the current standard for cancer treatment. Immunotherapy offers the possibility of achieving excellent results-a new alternative for patients with advanced-stage or relapsed disease. Nowadays, the progress made in tumour biology has led to multiple advances in clinical and translational cancer research. Many oncogenic pathways responsible for tumour growth and metastases have been described and, consequently, multiple new cancer therapeutic agents have been developed and are under current investigation. Due to this rapid increase in knowledge and pharmaceutical development, traditional clinical trials designs have encountered major limitations. The pharmacological differences (in toxicity profiles and effectiveness patterns) between immunotherapy and chemotherapy have caused traditional clinical trials to evolve in order to meet this emerging need. This review focuses on the different options pertaining to clinical trial design that have arisen in the field of immuno-oncology, as well as the challenges of accurately interpreting traditional survival analyses within this novel area of cancer medicine.

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basket designclinical trialsimmunotherapy cancermaster protocolsumbrella design

Identifiers

PMID31552109
PMCPMC6695130

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